Here is our (very first) How To… guide to Rock Painting: Cute, Fluffy Birds. These birds are one of the first things I learnt to paint, they feature heavily in my own rock painting collection. They are so easy to do, even for the first time painters amongst you. There is a downloadable guide too if you’d like to download and print out instructions for a class maybe. How to paint- Cute fluffy birdsDownload a PDF guide Paint a rough brown branch (optional) and a circle of whatever colour you want your bird to be floating slightly above the branch. Paint two smaller white blobs, slightly overla ..read more

Here is our RockFun guide to Rock or Pebble Painting: Santa for Christmas. As part of our seasonal rock painting guides, here are our efforts at a very simple, child friendly guide to rock painting, Santa. The best rock for our Santa is a long oval rock, but this really doesn’t matter too much as you can adjust your design to suit the rock. When applying the base colours, don’t worry about being too precise, this is the general colouring that you do with the thicker paint pens, and everything becomes clear once you apply the detailing and outlines with our superfine pens. Step 1: Get yoursel ..read more

It’s Christmas Rock Painting time. I think we all agree that 2020 has been a real disappointing year for just about everyone. Now that we have Halloween out of the way, there is little else to do whilst lockdown continues, so what can we do? How about we put together some Christmas rock painting ideas for our lovely fans – that’s you folks! Oh, also BIG news. Way back earlier this year we entered our pens into a review panel, and guess what we only went and won! We are an official Creative Play Awards 2020 winner. Read all about it here! This is a major achievement for us, being our FIRST awar ..read more

This is another in a series of Rock painting videos. In this video my dad painted a Mummy rock. He made a few but we only filmed this one. Painting a Mumm rock is actually quite simple, you just have to remember to leave a nice gap for the eyes. Please support us by watching and liking our videos. What is a Mummy, some of you may ask? According to the official brain boxes, mummification is the process by which dead bodies are embalmed in ancient Egypt. I’m not sure if they do it anywhere else, but I do know Egypt did. I know mummies from one of my favourite cartoons, Scooby Doo. I hope you li ..read more

This is the first of what we hope will be a series of Rock painting videos. In this video I persuaded my dad to film himself painting a Mr. Spaghetti Head, which was a design he came up with when doodling. Mr Spaghetti head resembles an angry zombie type creature with his brains hanging out. Please support us by watching and liking our videos. I hope you like it, now I’ve got to ask him to make some more. Rock or Pebble Painting: Santa for Christmas Christmas Rock Painting Halloween Rock Painting: How to paint a Mummy Halloween Rock Painting: Mr Spaghetti Head Halloween Rock Painti ..read more

How Rock Painting Can Help Calm Kids through creativity not medication. I have always enjoyed being creative and love to get out a bunch of paints, brushes, pens and paper. I’m only 13 (yes I’ve had a birthday since starting RockFun) and I really enjoy art at home. My parents did send me to an after school art club about 2 years ago, but I found that it was too like a classroom and too strict as they wanted me to paint a pot of flowers or an apple, but I just wanted to paint what was in my head, a dragon or a cute blob animal thing, so the classes weren’t working for me. Rock painting (and art ..read more

How Rock Painting Can Help Calm Kids through creativity not medication. I have always enjoyed being creative and love to get out a bunch of paints, brushes, pens and paper. I’m only 13 (yes I’ve had a birthday since starting RockFun) and I really enjoy art at home. My parents did send me to an after school art club about 2 years ago, but I found that it was too like a classroom and too strict as they wanted me to paint a pot of flowers or an apple, but I just wanted to paint what was in my head, a dragon or a cute blob animal thing, so the classes weren’t working for me. Rock painting (and art ..read more

Want some Halloween activities for the little ones in 2020? Don’t miss the Autumn issue of Creative Steps magazine – featuring a full page Halloween special with RockFun. Learn to create and paint rocks with Cute Spiders, Spooky Jack O’Lanterns and Scary Mummies! The magazine is packed full of many other activities which will keep us all busy over the next few months too! Oh, and did we mention a bumper load of prizes as well. Creative Steps Autumn 2020 Issue 67 The post Creative Steps Halloween Activities with RockFun appeared first on RockFun -official ..read more

It’s been a busy few days at RockFun. We’ve been painting Halloween rocks ready for a bumper hiding expedition in October (Look out Surrey). Everything from zombies, ghosts and witches, to Mummies, bats and spiders. We have produced some new guides too so look out for them. Halloween Rock Painting: How to paint a Mummy Halloween Rock Painting: Mr Spaghetti Head This is a Halloween rock from last year which was hidden on Ashtead Common. I also got a willing parent to record a video painting a character he invented, It was meant to be a zombie, but I prefer to call him Mr ..read more

First the legal bit; this is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram. Right, that’s out of the way. Its competition time folks, to win a pack of our super fine pens, all you have to do is make your own design based on the theme and upload your picture to Instagram, making sure you tag RockFunUK. Unfortunately the competition is only open to the UK and prize can only be shipped to a UK address. Good luck! DO: Upload your themed rock to Instagram and tag RockFunUK Prize can only be shipped to a UK address and there’s no alternative. Closing: 29 Jan 2021 ..read more